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I thought you would like to see what a messy hand tool shop looks like! When was the last time someone commented on how nice your shop smelled? It really is a nice way to work wood. – Adam [...]

I can think of only a few 18th c furniture forms where carcass dovetails can be seen at all. As I recall, none can be seen from the front. Dovetails have become for modern woodworkers what Alfred [...]

Whenever I go to one of the big woodworking shows (such as the International Woodworking Fair), I always like to see the big CNC machines where the operators put a sheet of plywood in at one end [...]

For years I used my Stanley 71 router plane in blissful ignorance. I was happy that it was easy to adjust and maneuver. But in the last couple years my affection for the No. 71 has been shaken, [...]

Last summer I spent a week in Columbus, Ohio, with my best friend from high school. He was there for a conference. I was there to write the text for my story on building an 18th-century walnut [...]

During the last several months I’ve gotten several e-mails, phone calls and comments from people who aren’t readers. Instead these communiquÃ?©s are from the wives of our readers, [...]

Our corporate web site experts encourage us to write as briefly as possible when speaking to an Internet audience. So with that in mind, here is my review of David Charlesworth‘s new book, [...]

Dusting Off the Anvil One of my favorite books is “The Magic Christian.” It’s about an eccentric billionaire who likes to play practical jokes. In one scene, a man busts up a [...]

John Sindelar stands in front of a door at the back of his thriving cabinet and millwork shop in Edwardsburg, Mich. The door opens into blackness and Sindelar turns around for a moment before [...]

Editor’s note: Every few days I’m asked for a bibliography of the essential books for a woodworker who is interested in working with hand tools. I often dash off a list of books that [...]

After collecting tens of thousands of tools, cabinetmaker John Sindelar is ready to show them off in a museum.

Father’s Day is Sunday, June 17, and I know  there are family members trying to figure out any last-minute gifts for dear old Dad. We are a woodworking magazine , I’m sure we’re [...]